19-08-2024 CARACAS: Opposition supporters have gathered across Venezuela to protest against Nicolas Maduro’s disputed victory in last month’s presidential election. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado joined thousands of protesters in the capital, Caracas, and urged them not to be afraid. Machado, who had been in hiding after being accused of …

18-08-2024 DOHA/ CAIRO/ GAZA CITY: Hamas has described suggestions of progress on an Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal as an illusion, after US President Joe Biden said he was feeling “optimistic”. Following two days of US-backed talks in Qatar, President Biden said on Friday “we are closer than we have ever been” …

18-08-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: The head of India’s markets regulator, Madhabi Puri Buch, continued to earn revenue from a consultancy firm during her seven-year tenure, potentially breaching rules for regulatory officials, according to public documents reviewed by Reuters. Hindenburg Research has alleged a conflict of interest in Buch’s …

18-08-2024 GAZA CITY: The Israeli military has bombed a warehouse sheltering displaced Palestinians in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza, martyring 15 members of one family, including nine children. The civil defence spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, said on Saturday that 15 people killed in the overnight attack were members …

18-08-2024 BERMUDA: Hurricane Ernesto has made landfall in Bermuda, leaving tens of thousands of people without power as it lashed the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially deadly flooding. The Category 1 storm brought maximum sustained winds of 140km/h (87mph) to Bermuda home to …

18-08-2024 HARARE: Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production causing food shortages in several countries. Elias Magosi, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said …

18-08-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Indian doctors launched a nationwide strike Saturday, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channeled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at a state-run hospital …

18-08-2024 KATMANDU: A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say. Experts suspect Thame which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m was flooded after a glacial lake burst its banks. Scientists have warned that climate change is causing many glaciers in the …

18-08-2024 DOHA/ WASHINGTON: Joe Biden has said he is “optimistic” that a Gaza ceasefire deal can be reached. “We are closer than we’ve ever been,” the US president said following the latest round of talks, adding he was sending his secretary of state to Israel to continue the “intensive efforts …

17-08-2024 DHAKA: As cases rise against her, including murder accusations, Bangladesh will decide whether to ask India to extradite former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to New Delhi last week, the country’s de-facto foreign minister Mohammad Touhid Hossain said on Thursday. Hossain said in an interview he …